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adrianhon.bsky.social
Founder and former CEO of Six to Start, made Zombies, Run!, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects. Diana Jones Award finalist. Currently Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre.
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With the far-right family behind the French revisionist historical theme park, Puy du Fou, planning a £600m park in the UK, it’s more important than ever to interrogate the *ideology* of immersive experiences. “Immersion” has always been used for propaganda, of course. But…

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Pixar’s Win or Lose is very strange. Is this show for kids? It’s practically the most grown-up thing they’ve made.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I read C. Thi Nguyen’s paper on games as crystallised agency a while ago but read his full book, Games: Agency as Art only recently. (This excerpt makes it sound like Severance with outties & innies!) Anyway, I’m desperate to talk to people about how it pertains to RPGs and larps specifically...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Games should be fun and not realistic

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

With Twitter/X becoming de facto US state media, Europe (and Canada/Australia) needs to properly fund social media alternatives. Not just things like Mastodon, but alternatives to Facebook Groups like Discourse. A few billion a year should help detach us from US tech giants.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

My keynote on The Age of Immersion at ACMI's FACT symposium is online! It’s a brand new talk where I explore three theories about why immersive experiences are so popular now, and find them all a bit wanting – but all useful.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Occasionally I read a book so bad it makes me feel so much better about my own writing. This time it's Christine Rosen's The Extinction of Experience, the "tech is destroying humanity" book du jour. This is a very seductive argument and it has glowing blurbs from people I respect. But it's bad!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We desperately need new ways for people to discover games beyond the platforms controlled by Steam, Apple, Sony, et al. This is a great idea that’ll be *free and independent* when it’s up and running, so throw in £4/$5 to get it going!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Prepare for the Bond Cinematic Universe: Spinoffs and TV shows for all!

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments